Diagnosis

A variety of health factors indicate your chance of having a cardiovascular event such as heart attack or stroke.

There are imaging tests, non-invasive and invasive, that may be used in cardiac risk assessment.

An Exercise StressTest is a useful tool for detecting coronary artery disease and for evaluating medical therapy and cardiac rehabilitation following myocardial infarction.

To view blood flow through your heart, your doctor may inject a special dye into your arteries (intravenously).

CT Scan (Computerized Axial Tomography) consists of many radiographs shot at the same time from different angles. Later, a computer gathers all the images and reconstructs them in only one image, summing up the images obtained from the different angles.

A cardiac CT scan for coronary calcium is a non-invasive way of obtaining information about the presence, location and extent of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries—the vessels that supply oxygen-containing blood to the heart muscle.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.